Oil burner



l. 0. TURNER.

OIL BURNER.

FILED MAR.9,1922.

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

Dec. 19, 1922. 1,439,641.

K J. o. TURNER.

0|L BURNER.

FILED MAR. 9, 1922. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

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JOSEPH.' O. TURNER, 0F FRANKLIN, KENTUCKY.

OIL BURNER.

Application led March 9, 1922. Serial No. 542,262.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH O. TURNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Franklin, in the county of Simpson and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oil Burners, of which the following isa specification.

My present invention has to do with hy "drocarbon burners for use in heating and cooking stoves and furnaces and its object is to provide an extremely simple and inexpensive burner which is strong and durable and efficient and economical in operation.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure l is a vertical section showing by way of example the form of burner for use in a cylindrical heating stove.

Figure 2 is a top plan view 'of the same.

Figure 3 is a horizontal section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3 3 of Figure l, looking downwardly.

Figure 4 is an Ainverted plan view of the deflecting member of the burner.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Various kinds of hydrocalibon may be burnt to advantage in my novel burner, the hydrocarbon being conducted from an appropriate source of supply (not y, shown) through a pipe 1, equipped with a valve 2 to the bottom of the hydrocarbon or oil pan 3 of the burner, as designated by 4 in Figures 1 and 3. The said pan 3 is provided with a central upwardly-tapered opening 5 for the passage of air, and about the said opening 5 f is arranged the oil-holding portion'I 6 of the pan which portion 6 is of concavo-convex/ form 1n vertical cross-sectlon as illustrated.

' At7 the inner wall of the pan 3 is rabbeted to aford 'a vledge adjacent to the pan porlowermost-i. e., reversed as compared with the pan portion 6 in which the concave side is uppermost. Integral with the member 8 are legs 9 which are grouped about the center of the member 8 and merely bear at the lower ends on the before mentioned ledge afforded by the rabbet 7. From this it follows that by merely lifting the member 8 it can be disassociated from the pan 3;'al'so, that the bearing of the inner sides of the legs 9 against the vertical wall of the said rabbet 7 may be depended on to preclude casual lateral shifting or displacement of the member 8. i

The member 8 is of a proportional size to overhang a considerable portion of the oilholding part 6 of the pan 3, and hence when oil is supplied to the said part 6 and is ignited, the draft of air passing upwardly through the opening 5 and striking the concave underside of the member 8 will be directed downwardly land outwardly against and pass the burningl oil in the pan part 6 and radially outward to highly heat the wall of a stove as is desirable. I

As hereinbefore indicated the annular type or round type of burner shown and described is designed for cylindrical heating stoves, but 'I would have it understood kthat it is within the purview of my invention to make the burner of oblong configuration in plan to suit the burner to a cook stove or to a furnace when the shape of the latter requires an oblong burner.

Manifestly the heat afforded by my novel burner may be regulated by manipulation of the valve 2 which will, by preference, be arranged exteriorly of the stove or furnace in which the burner is located.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,

In ahydrocarbon burner, a pan having a central upwardly-tapered opening extending throughout the height thereof and also having an oil-holding portion about said opening, said oil-holding portion of concavo-con Vex form in cross-section with its concave side uppermost, and the wall between the central opening and the oil-holdingportion being rabbeted at its side toward the latter, a

concave-convex deector member of larger size than the central portion of the pan spaced above the pan, with its concave Side lowermost and overhangng the oil-holding portion ofthe pan, legs mtegral with the deeetor member and grouped about the Center of the burner and bearing on the ledge aff;

forded by said rabbet and against the upright Wall thereof, and a Valved oil supply JOSEPH no. TURNER. 

